[parisc-linux] framebuffer drawing incorrectly ?

[Joel Soete]

please send your xfonfig-4 and your dmesg file.

Joel

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i've been trying to get the framebuffer to work but so far havent had any 
> luck ... i was unable to locate anyone who had a similar problem ...
> 
> Display controller: Hewlett-Packard Comp A4977A Visualize EG (rev 3).
> machine is a C360 ... STI Console works great ...
> tried 2.4.22-pa13 and 2.6.0-test9-pa5 with same exact results
> 
> the frame buffer draws all messed up however ... it only draws on the right 
> quarter of the screen ... the rest of the screen still contains the buffered 
> video as found when the computer was booted (firmware output along with palo 
> stuff) ... the colors are all skewed, basically white is purple along with a 
> few other bit inversions of some sort ...
> also, each line is drawn incorrectly ... it's like each has been split in half 
> horizontally and then swapped ...
> i can get X to load, but again it draws it all messed up in the right quarter 
> on the screen
> 
> i wish i could post a frame buffer grab, but fbgrab doesnt support 8bit and 
> fbscreenshot likes to segfault when writing the png to disk.
> 
> any ideas what i'm missing ?
> or is the fbdriver the only way i can get X and running ?
> -mike